When conflict leads to abandoned fields, lost livestock, or altered investment decisions, it undermines food security and development.
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The politics of ethnicity laid the groundwork for Mungiki.
Patronage politics, a history of violent conflict and high-stakes elections increase the risks of poll violence in Kenya.
Under certain conditions, climate can amplify security risks, with implications for lasting peace.
Beyond the struggle for land and water, new triggers of conflict between farmers and herders have emerged in northern Nigeria.
The right strategies, using agrarian or adat justice, can settle conflicts in favour of local people and indigenous peoples.
There are studies showing that farmers can have economic benefits from palm oil. However, they can also be impoverished by the commodity.
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